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The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has granted me permission to reproduce the seminal history of GTR locomotives from its Bulletin #147. A new page GTR Locomotives - R&LHS Bulletin #147 has been added.

The Gallery of Ontario Stations has been allocated its own main menu, and the stations have been moved over to individual sub-menus by alphabet so that each page will load faster.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION:Canadian Rail, or formerly the CRHA Bulletin/News Report, has been foremost for the past 80 years in publishing a monthly newsletter on all aspects of Canadian railways and transit. The CRHA has generously made its past copies up to 2014 available on-line, but unfortunately there is no content index after issue #117. The PDF link to each Issue is available here, and the feature article(s) of each Issue is (are) gradually being recorded alongside each link.

Rails to GoderichSold out at the distributor's (Credit Valley Railway Company), but please note that Ralph Beaumont has set aside a couple of cases for shows and talks. He will have them at a talk he is giving to the OVAR group in Ottawa on April 10.

The Portage Railway - An Illustrated History of the Huntsville & Lake of Bays Railwayby Jeff Young and Peter FoleyIt is in the final design stage and will, we hope, be available late April or early May. It will be landscape format 11x9 - hard cover - and working toward 224 pages plus 20 large foldout drawings and plans. 300 photos, 85 per cent never before published. Retail $69.95, to be distributed by the Credit Valley Railway Company. Further advice when advance orders are available.

The Nottawasaga Model Railway Club is recreating the Meaford Subdivision CNR in HO Scale at the Bygone Days Heritage Village in Collingwood. It is a compressed 47 by 14 foot layout of the Barrie to Meaford line. The group was written up in an article in the Collingwood Connection of January 26, 2017. Their website is: www.nottawasagamodelrailway.com(Information courtesy David Vuckson)

Preservation Project News and Updates

The GTR Burlington Freeman (Ont.) station is an ongoing work of restoration in progress, and the Friends of the Freeman station are always on the look-out for volunteers to help the work along. For more information, go to The Friends of the Freeman Station, or email info@freemanstation.ca.

The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre (Capreol, Ontario), which now attracts more than 10,000 visitors annually is asking for support and financial assistance from individuals, companies and organizations with particular reference to two ambitious projects: the restoration of T&NO STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 219 and the re-creation of CAPREOL’S “PADDY WAGON”. Please click here for more details about the Museum and these restoration projects. For a copy of the story of No. 219,please click here. To donate, please use this form.

The Searchmont Station Preservation & Historical Society is raising funds with the aim of restoring what is left of this station (on the CN Soo Subdivision [former Algoma Central Railway].) For more information, click here.

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